Wendy Videlock lives in Western Colorado. Her book, Nevertheless (Able Muse Press) will appear in the summer of 2011.
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Cat
From the moment she grew a tooth
and knew
to use it with a look,
an implied
word,
one indifferent
purr,
nobody ever
stood a chance with her.
Purpose
It's not so strange
the way an apple
draws the rain,
how we answer
to our names,
the way the mare
shakes her mane,
or how a man
will fix his gaze
on the thing
he means to change.